I’ve been talking about boinga today on Twitter. It’s my new Zen word. Boinga! If you don’t have small children, it’s unlikely you know what Boinga is, so I’ll share…
The female voice is Alica Keys.
Boinga!
(sorry for the earworm. But not really)
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Oh, no. I got the earworm just by hearing the word Boinga.
Love those Backyardigans, though.
“We’re going to Mars, We’re going to Mars…”
My boys love that song!
I had had no idea what you were talking about so I made the mistake of clicking on the link….and listening to the whole song.
Gotcha. Boinga = smurf – except it has a song. Although, I don’t think smurf was used as noun (except, you know, for Smurfs themselves)
*I* love this song, so much that my four-year-old says, “No singing, Mommy!” when it comes on.
Those Backyardigans are so clever!!
lol.
Boinga… the swiss army knife of words: noun, verb, adjective AND it makes Julienne fries!
@Jana J. Hanson
Yeah, my kids always shush me when the Backyardigans are in full song mode… which is about every 15 seconds on the show. Constant earworm contagion
keith
We’ve been hooked on that boinga song for a long, boinga time. Welcome to boinga.
We’re well familiar with “Boinga” here. It’s almost as useful as the word “marklar” which, coincidentally, also hails from outer space.